PENNSYLVANIA. 



is a minor or known to be intemperate, or is 

 already under the influence of liquor. 



Special appropriations were made to com- 

 plete the Industrial Reformatory at Hunting- 

 don ($273,750), to complete buildings at the 

 Insane Hospital at Norristown ($45,000), for 

 buildings of the Normal School at Lockhaven 

 ($15,000), for additions to the Soldiers' and 

 Sailors' Home at Erie ($120,000), for the erec- 

 tion of a State hospital for injured persons at 

 Luzerne ($60,000), and for the erection of 

 other hospitals for the injured at points in the 

 bituminous coal-fields ($60,000). Many items 

 providing for improvements at public institu- 

 tions were vetoed by the Governor. An elab- 

 orate revenue act, though much debated, failed 

 Other acts of the session were : 



Establishing four additional magistrate courts for 

 the trial of minor civil and criminal causes in Phila- 

 delphia. 



Requiring employers of females to furnish suitable 

 seats for their use. 



Providing for the incorporation and regulation of 

 motor-power companies for operating passenger rail- 

 ways by cables, electrical appliances, or other means. 



Constituting twelve hours a day's work for drivers 

 and other employes of street-railway companies. 



Permitting the Federal Government to acquire lands 

 for the use of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. 



Establishing a uniform standard of time throughout 

 the State. 



Enacting a new law for the organization, discipline, 

 and regulation of the National Guard. 



To authorize chattel mortgages upon iron-ore, pig- 

 iron, blooms, steel and iron nails, steel ingots and 

 billets, rolled' or hammered steel in sheets, bars, or 

 plates, and all steel and iron castings. 



To provide for the better collection of collateral-in- 

 heritance taxes. 



To prevent and punish the making and dissemina- 

 tion of obscene literature and other immoral and in- 

 decent matter. 



To prevent the mutilation and destruction of show- 

 bills, placards, etc. 



Prohibiting the issue of "watered" stock by rail- 

 roads and other corporations. 



To establish a State weather service to disseminate 

 forecasts of the weather, and to maintain meteoro- 

 logical stations for observation in each county. 



To abolish all taxes heretofore laid upon watches, 

 household furniture, and pleasure-carriages. 



Providing for the sale of the eastern and western 

 farms belonging to the State college. 



Kepealing the bounty law upon foxes, minks, 

 hawks, weasels, and owls, and offering a bounty for 

 the pelts of wolves and wild-cats only. 



Giving mechanics and those who furnish materials 

 the same lien on buildings that have been repaired, 

 altered, or enlarged, as upon those newly erected. 



Declaring drunkenness on the part of election 

 officers ana assessors of poll taxes a misdemeanor, 

 and requiring elections to be held in rooms where 

 liquor is not sold. 



Kaising the age of consent in females from ten to 

 sixteen years. 



To punish false pretenses in obtaining registration 

 of cattle and other animals, and to punish giving false 

 pedigrees. 



Providing a punishment for refusing accommodation 

 or admittance to persons on account of their race or 

 color, at any restaurant, hotel, public conveyance, 

 theatre, concert, or other place of entertainment. 



Giving honorably discharged soldiers and sailors the 

 preference in public appointment and employment. 



Providing for the preservation of monuments mark- 

 ing the boundary -line of the State. 



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Extending the minimum school term t<-> -ix u. 



To prevent the adulteration of taudy <>r < 

 tionery. 



Revising and consolidating the law relating to evi- 

 dence in legal proceedings. 



Providing that equitv^proccedings may be begun by 

 foreign attachment, when payment of money is in- 

 volved in the case. 



Appropriating the dog-tax to the support of public 

 libraries. 



Authorizing the abandonment of burying-grounds. 



Requiring detectives to be licensed, and otherwise 

 regulating their business. 



Making it a felony to break nnd enter a car, or any 

 part of a railroad train, with felonious intent. 



Creating a State board of pharmacy, to license and 

 regulate the sale of medicines, prescribing its duties, 

 and making regulations to prevent the adulteration of 

 drugs and the indiscriminate sale of poisons. 



Dividing the cities of the State into seven elapses, 

 prescribing general regulations relative to the passage 

 of ordinances, the giving of contracts, the manage- 

 ment of nuances, the terms and duties of officers, and 

 the punishment of ofl'enses, and providing for the 

 incorporation and government of cities of the fourth, 

 fifth, sixth, and seventh classes. 



Authorizing cities of the first class to maintain 

 juvenile reformatories. 



Authorizing the formation of associations for the 

 prevention ot cruelty to children and aged persons. 



Abolishing all distinctions, so i'ar as relates, to pro- 

 cedure, between the various kinds of actions ex con- 

 tractu, and providing one form of action, the " action 

 of assumpsit " therefor ; abolishing the distinction be- 

 tween the various actions ex delicto, and providing 

 one form, the "action of trespass" therefor, and 

 abolishing all forms of special pleading. 



Permitting the stockholders of corporations to de- 

 termine the number of directors and the time for 

 holding annual elections. 



Prohibiting the employment of children under 

 twelve years old in any mill, manufactory, or mine. 



To encourage the planting of forests, 'bv remitting 

 a part of the taxes on land so planted, and to punisn 

 the injury and destruction of forests. 



Authorizing county courts, on petition of persons 

 interested, to take and condemn for public use, free 

 from tolls, any highway upon which tolls have before 

 been charged, first compensating the owners of such 

 tolls for the loss thereof. 



Appropriating money for the protection and propa- 

 gation ot fish. 



To confirm the boundary-lines between Pennsyl- 

 vania and the States of New York, Ohio,_ and West 

 Virginia, as resurveyed by the joint commissions ap- 

 pointed for that purpose, and to ratify the agreement 

 of the Commissioners of the State and of New York 

 relative to the boundary between said States. 



To encourage and authorize the formation of co- 

 operative associations, productive and distributive. 



Providing for the incorporation of expositions of 

 artistic, mechanical, agricultural, and horticultural 

 products, and giving them the right of eminent do- 

 main. 



Directing councils of cities of the second class to 

 provide for the improvement of streets, lanes, sewers, 

 and sidewalks, and defining their powers in this 

 regard. 



Requesting the Governor annually to designate a 

 day to be known as "Arbor Day," appropriating 

 money for tablets and monuments of Pennsylvania 

 troops upon the Gettysburg battle-field. 



Giving mechanics, laborers, and others a lien upon 

 personafproperty and upon leasehold estates. 



Two amendments to the Constitution were 

 proposed for adoption, the ratification of the 

 succeeding Legislature being necessary before 

 their submission to the people. The first of 

 these changes the qualifications of voters by 





